Pak Kwang-ryong

Pak Kwang-Ryong
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-09-27) 27 September 1992
Place of birth Pyongyang, DPR Korea
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
 Lausanne
Number 9
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Wolmido ? (?)
2011 Wil 0 (0)
2011–2016 Basel 14 (1)
2012 Basel U-21 12 (6)
2013 → Bellinzona (loan) 17 (7)
2013 → Vaduz (loan) 5 (2)
2014–2015 → Vaduz (loan) 37 (10)
2015–2016 → Biel-Bienne (loan) 26 (10)
2016– Lausanne 39 (10)
National team‡
2010– North Korea U23 3 (3)
2009– North Korea 28 (10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 June 2017.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2017
Pak Kwang-ryong
Chosŏn'gŭl 박광룡
Hancha 朴光龍[1]
Revised Romanization Bak Gwangnyong
McCune–Reischauer Pak Kwangnyong

Pak Kwang-Ryong (Hangul: 박광룡; born 27 September 1992 in Pyongyang) is a North Korean professional footballer who plays as a striker for Lausanne in the Swiss Super League.

Career

Pak joined Basel on 27 June 2011 from FC Wil 1900.[2] He played for the club in the Uhrencup during July 2011 and scored a goal in the 2–1 win against West Ham United on 13 July 2011.[3] Pak made his first team league debut as a substitute on 16 July 2011 in the 1–1 away draw against BSC Young Boys.[4]

Because he was born in 1992 he was eligible to play for the newly formed Basel Under-19 team in the 2011–12 NextGen series. He scored his first goal for them during the team's first game against Tottenham Hotspur F.C. on 17 August 2011.[5]

On 14 September 2011 Pak became the first North Korean to play in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League campaign, coming on the field in the 92nd minute. On his 19th birthday, 27 September 2011, Pak came on as a substitute in the 81st minute of FC Basel's 3–3 away draw against Manchester United at Old Trafford in another UEFA Champions League match. At the end of the 2011–12 season he won the Double, the League Championship title[6] and the Swiss Cup,[7] with Basel.

Pak could not gain a place in the first team during the 2012–13 season but played regularly in their U-21 side, scoring six goals in twelve matches. On 11 January 2013, Basel announced that some of their youngsters would be loaned out to lower league clubs and Pak signed a deal with Bellinzona, so that he could gain playing experience in the Challenge League. [8]

On 20 June 2013, Basel announced that they would loan Pak to the Liechtensteiner club Vaduz in the Swiss Challenge League to gain more playing experience. Following the transfer of Raúl Bobadilla to Augsburg in the Bundesliga, and the injury to Marco Streller, Basel decided to recall the striker to their squad.[9] Pak played just one more game for Basel before he was again loaned to Vaduz from January 2014 until the end of the season. Playing in all 18 games, he scored 9 goals and Vaduz finished the 2013–14 Swiss Challenge League season as winners and were promoted. Pak's loan was renewed for the following Swiss Super League season.

At the end of the 2014–15 season, Basel did not renew Pak's contract. On 1 July 2015, he joined Biel-Bienne as a free agent. On 4 January 2016, Biel-Bienne annulled their contract with Pak who then signed with Lausanne.[10]

International goals

Scores and results list North Korea's goal tally first.[11]
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1. 19 February 2010 Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka  Kyrgyzstan 2–0 4–0 2010 AFC Challenge Cup
2. 16 March 2012 Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Kathmandu, Nepal  Palestine 1–0 2–0 2012 AFC Challenge Cup
3. 2–0
4. 16 June 2015 Kim Il-sung Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea  Uzbekistan 1–0 4–2 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
5. 17 November 2015 Kim Il-sung Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea  Bahrain 1–0 2–0 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
6. 6 October 2016 Thống Nhất Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam  Vietnam 1–0 2–5 Friendly
7. 2–2
8. 10 October 2016 Rizal Memorial Stadium, Manila, Philippines  Philippines 1–0 3–1 Friendly
9. 9 November 2016 Mong Kok Stadium, Mong Kok, Hong Kong  Guam 2–0 2–0 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship qualification
10. 6 June 2017 Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar  Qatar 1–2 2–2 Friendly

Titles and honours

North Korea

Basel

Vaduz

References

  1. ↑ "瑞士超级联赛冠军签下朝鲜18岁妖人朴光龙". People's Daily. 29 June 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  2. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (2011). "Stürmer aus Nordkorea für den FCB" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Meister, Remo (2011). "Der FCB gewinnt den Uhrencup" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
  4. ↑ Meister, Remo (2011). "Ein Unentschieden zum Auftakt" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  5. ↑ Marti, Caspar (2011). "Punkteteilung im ersten Spiel der "Nachwuchs-Champions League"" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
  6. ↑ Meister, Remo (2012). "Der 15. Meistertitel für den FCB – die Bilanz einer grandiosen Saison". football.ch. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  7. ↑ "Matchtelegram FC Basel 1893 5:3 FC Luzern". football.ch. 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  8. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (2013). "Kwang Ryong Pak leihweise zu Bellinzona" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  9. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (2013). "Kwang Ryong Pak zurück zum FC Basel 1893 / Marco Streller fällt aus" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2013-08-19.
  10. ↑ Scahffner, Philippe (2016). "Pak wechselt zum FC Lausanne-Sport" (in German). Fussball Club Biel-Bienne. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  11. ↑ "Pak, Kwang-Ryong". National Football Teams. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
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